Ebola virus

Mutant Ebola Virus Developed In Chinese Lab Causes Scabs Over Eyeballs

Chinese scientists have created a mutant strain of the Ebola virus that induces severe and horrific symptoms in laboratory animals. The research, published in the journal Science Direct, was conducted by scientists at Hebei Medical University, who engineered the deadly virus using a glycoprotein from Ebola. In the study, three-week-old...

Researchers discover new way Ebola virus uses to infect cells

Understanding how viruses spread once they enter the human body is crucial for developing medications and therapies that can stop viruses in their tracks.Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) researchers recently published data in the Journal of Infectious Diseases revealing that the Ebola virus develops and exploits intercellular tunnels to...